Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Sepia Saturday 68 : 2 April 2011

Image by Lewis Hine : Archives of the US Work Progress Administration

My archive image this week is Lewis Hine's famous picture "Power House Mechanic Working On Steam Hammer". Taken in 1920 and now part of the collection of the US Work Progress Administration and freely available via the WikiMedia Collection, the image perfectly captures that almost cursed synergy that was seen to exist between man (and woman) and machine in the 1920s and can also be seen in films such as Chaplins' masterpiece "Modern Times". For the "themers" amongst Sepia Saturday regulars there is plenty to be working on, for those who are following a theme of their own, it is something to look at and admire whilst they link their own contribution. Sepia Saturday 68 will be on or about the 2nd April 2011, which I suppose is anytime between now and next Sunday, so get working.

SEPIA SATURDAYis a weekly meme which encourages bloggers to publish and share old images and photographs. All that is required is for contributors to post an old image (it doesn't have to be in sepia) and provide a few words in explanation. If you could provide a link back to the Sepia Saturday Blog and visit as many of the other contributors as you can, it would also be appreciated. There is no weekly theme, as such, but some people like to use the archive image published with the weekly call as a kind of theme. There is no requirement to adopt such an approach : the choice of image is entirely up to you. Once you have published your Sepia Saturday post, add a link to that post to the Linky List published each week and leave a comment to let everyone know you are joining in.

29 comments:

Hi Alan ... omg, you are not going to believe my post! I just found the material at a thrift store yesterday and boy, is it timely for this week's theme. Have a great SS, even if this is only Wednesday. Take care, Kathy M.

Hi, I hope that you guys don't mind, but I am linking up my second Sepia post for the week. Friday is my Dad's birthday, and I have posted some more Americana stuff that is really neat. I don't mean to be a Sepia Saturday hogger, but I didn't want you guys to miss out. Thanks!

Love the photo. Reminds me of the work of Margaret Bourke-White during the depression. I'm not on theme at all this week. Sorry. But I think you'll enjoy meeting my "fun loving group".Nancy http://ladiesofthegrove.blogspot.com/

If the message is Man vs. Machine, than I'm on theme this weekend. Happy April the First!

Thanks to All for your comments, but especially for a clue that my embedded audio clips on a recent post were somehow misread by certain browsers as being on autoplay. I've corrected that and learned yet more secret html://code.

i'm in!!not as a themer, nor as a memer...but as an anti-themer!!since i had no pictures on the ready fitting with the theme, hard working man, i took the complete opposite idea: not working!!! (in two very different scenarios):)~HUGZ

I posted this poem quite early on in my blog and it has sat there languishing, almost unread and unnoticed. Earlier today I decided to try and copy/scan the photo that it refers to and add it to the poem in readiness for another weekly prompt that starts on monday, when I spotted this one and thought I'd share it here too. Hope you like it :)

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.